Section 207 - Disability while unemployed1. Employees entitled to unemployment insurance benefits. An employee whose employment with a covered employer is terminated and who during a period of unemployment within twenty-six weeks immediately following such termination of employment shall become ineligible for benefits currently being claimed under the unemployment insurance law solely because of disability commencing after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty, and who on the day such disability commences is not employed or working for remuneration or profit and is not then otherwise eligible for benefits under this article, shall be entitled to receive disability benefits as herein provided for each week of such disability for which week he would have received unemployment insurance benefits if he were not so disabled. The weekly benefit of such disabled employee shall be computed in the same manner as provided in subdivision two of section two hundred four, and the benefits he is entitled to receive shall be subject to the limitations as to maximum and minimum amounts and duration and other conditions and limitations prescribed in sections two hundred four, two hundred five and two hundred six.2. Employees not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. An employee whose employment with a covered employer is terminated and who was in employment of one or more covered employers and was paid wages of at least thirteen dollars in such employment in each of twenty calendar weeks during the thirty calendar weeks immediately preceding the date he last worked for such covered employer, and who during a period of unemployment within twenty-six weeks immediately following such termination of employment is not eligible to benefits under the unemployment insurance law because of lack of qualifying wages but who during unemployment has evidenced his continued attachment to the labor market, shall be eligible for benefits under the provisions of this subdivision for disability commencing after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty. If such employee becomes disabled and continues to be disabled for at least eight consecutive days during such twenty-six week period and on the day such disability commences he is not employed or working for remuneration or profit and is not then otherwise eligible for benefits under this article, he shall be entitled to receive disability benefits, as herein provided, beginning with the eighth consecutive day of such disability, for each week of such disability thereafter. The weekly benefit of such disabled employee shall be computed in the same manner as provided in subdivision two of section two hundred four, and the benefits he is entitled to receive shall be subject to the limitations as to maximum and minimum amounts and duration and other conditions and limitations prescribed in sections two hundred four, two hundred five and two hundred six.3. Payment of benefits. The benefits payable under this section shall be subject to the provisions and limitations generally applicable to disability benefits payable under this article, and shall be paid by the chairman out of any assets in the fund created by section two hundred fourteen. The chairman may require an employee claiming benefits under this section to file proofs of disability and of his employment and wages, and other proofs reasonably necessary for the chairman to make in the first instance the determination of eligibility and benefit rights under this section; and may require his employer or his former employer or employers to file reports of employment and wages and other information reasonably necessary for such determination. The chairman may make administrative regulations for such determinations. The chairman may also by regulation establish reasonable procedures for determining pro rata benefits payable with respect to disability periods of less than one week. Any employee claiming benefits under this section whose claim is rejected in whole or in part by the chairman, shall be entitled to request a review by the board and shall have all the rights with respect to contested claims provided in this article.4. Qualification notwithstanding casual non-covered employment. An employment of not more than four weeks with a non-covered employer or employers occurring within such twenty-six weeks period shall not disqualify an employee from benefits provided such employee was otherwise eligible to receive benefits under this section at the time such employment for a non-covered employer commenced.5. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to family leave benefits, as family leave benefits are not available to employees that are not employed at the time family leave is requested by filing the notice and medical certification required by the chair.N.Y. Work. Comp. Law § 207
Amended by New York Laws 2016, ch. 54,Sec. SS-8, eff. 4/1/2016.